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Earlier tonight, President Obama laid out what I personally thought was his best State of the Union address to date.  It was optimistic, and honest, and filled with the sort of promise we've wanted to hear from a President for a very long time.  I disagreed with some o …

Way back in the fall of 1996, when I was a student at Binghamton High School, I was tinkering with my PC, trying to get a game I enjoyed to run properly.  The issue I was having was that my computer, with its woefully-low specs, couldn't quite handle the game.  The oper …

On October 15th, I headed out to the first major Occupy Wall Street (or "OWS") event in my city, Binghamton New York.  Today, roughly two weeks later, the small park being occupied on the corner of Court and State is still packed to the brim with tents, and driving by on an …

You'd expect me to be a firebrand supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but, truth be told, I'm not.  I believe in Occupy's mission, philosophy, and goals.  I believe they have the potential to usher in real change, and I'm hopeful they'll make that happen.&nbs …

Late last night, my girlfriend and I were sitting in our apartment, chatting about the Occupy movement, and how it really isn't entirely too different from the Tea Party, when you look past the face-value messages of the two groups of course.  I made the prediction that thi …

In the panic and confusion of the devastating floods that wreaked havoc on the Binghamton area during Tropical Storm Lee, I found myself being prematurely thankful that my girlfriend and I weren't too severely directly impacted by the disaster.  That says nothing of my frien …

In the panic, confusion, and disarray of catastrophic flooding, accidents will happen.  But one tragic story has highlighted extreme levels of malfeasance on the part of a large corporate pet store, PETCO, which allowed an estimated 100 animals to die as the Twin Tiers expe …